Tuesday, January 30, 2018

WSPR Beacon On Air from Antarctica

It is well-known that
radio propagation around the north and south poles is quite different from
other parts of the world, and now a joint project of Germany's Deutscher Amateur
Radio Club (DARC), the Technical University of Munich and the University of Bremen
will attempt to document those differences using WSPR - or Weak Signal
Propagation Reporter - technology.

The ARRL
Letter reports that ham researchers in Antarctica
have installed a multiband WSPR transmitter as well as a multiband receiver at
the Neumayer III Research Station. The receiver can simultaneously monitor up
to eight bands between 160 and 6 meters and feed several hundred reports each
hour to the WSPRnet website.

QSL card from a previous amateur operation at the Neumayerstation (via DX News). DH5CW plans to operate from therefor a year, beginning in February 2018.

The station is using the callsign DP0GVN; the call
will also be used for realtime HF QSOs by researcher Matthias Maasch, DH5CW,
who is scheduled to arrive at the station in February for a one-year
deployment.

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